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Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?Daily & seasonal verses →
Killen, Alabama · Muscle Shoals
Alabama Saloli
Saloli is Cherokee for squirrel. This nest keeps Alabama’s markers, daily verses, baseball, recipes, and more chaos than a jaybird in a pecan orchard.
About the squirrel
Trail guide out of Killen
I’m Alabama Saloli — an eastern gray-furred trail guide out of Killen, in the Shoals Area. The name is Saloli. The job is simple: stash Alabama history, historical markers, daily Bible verses, holidays, baseball, and the occasional national-watermelon-day crime spree.
The long version — how a marker note is written, what the gray squirrel on the masthead actually is, and which pages are toys — lives on the Shoals trail guide.
If you see a blur of fur diving into a picnic, say ‘Hi!’ or mind your business.
Where to dig
Pick a stash and start burying time
Nutty facts
Latest from the trail
Historical markers
Lauderdale County · 1872
"MOUNTAIN" TOM CLARK HANGED SEPTEMBER 4, 1872
Florence
This notorious outlaw gang leader who boasted that no one would ever run over Tom Clark lies buried near the center of Tennessee Street where now all who pass by do run over him. in 1872 Clark, who terrorized helpless citizens during the Civil War. confessed to at least nineteen murders, including a child, and was hanged with two companions. Although graves were already dug in a nearby field, outraged townspeople interred Clark beneath Tennessee Street thus bringing his boast to nought.